Wow … Pepper of Paleo for Women is on fire! First there was her great series on weight loss. And she’s topped that with her last post — The Evolutionary Perspective: Liberating and Empowering a Woman’s Self-hood — which makes the not often enough said point that ancestral health is not just about avoiding neolithic [...]
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On being fierce
Posted in Ancestral health on May 19, 2012 | 4 Comments »
MMLAFL Postscript: Shut the eff up!
Posted in Ancestral health, Me, me, me, Weight loss on May 5, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Regular readers know that I recently completed my Mat Lalonde-inspired Approach for Lent. MMLAFL was, for me, an elimination diet of sorts: no grains, dairy, nightshades, or sweeteners (natural or artificial). It was basically Mat Lalonde (eat meat and veggies) meets Terry Wahl (eat greens, sulfurous veggies like broccoli and cauliflower, and colorful veggies); you [...]
Loving my new shoes!
Posted in Ancestral health on April 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The nice folks at Kigo Footwear have restored my faith in customer service after my recent disastrous experience with Altra. I order the Kigo drive and the size I ordered was too large. So I sent the shoes back to Kigo (just as I had with the Altra Eve’s) and not only did they not [...]
Sequel to Your Brain on Porn
Posted in Ancestral health, Brain & appetite, Food addiction on April 15, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Gary Wilson of Your Brain on Porn has a new video available (here’s my post about his original series of videos). I think this is a must watch for anyone interested in food addiction. Given that drives for food and sex are similar from an ancestral perspective, the parallels between internet porn and industrial food [...]
Quote of the day
Posted in Ancestral health, QOTD on April 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »
From J Stanton on Anti-Nutritionism, L-Canavanine, And The Limitations of N=1 Self-Experimentation: For the most part, the dose makes the poison…so unless cheating will start you on a binge, it’s better to say “I am going to eat these street tacos because they’re delicious and I want some” than to try to convince yourself that [...]
Quote of the day
Posted in Ancestral health, QOTD on March 28, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Kurt Harris says it’s probably not about the NADs (neolithic agents of disease): A state where everyone needs to eat a customized, idiosyncratic paleo diet to not be sick, where there are legions of people continuously altering their diets in an attempt to get healthy, and there are many many people who eat PERFECTLY in [...]
MMLAFL: Day 33 … weight & shoe update
Posted in Ancestral health, Me, me, me, Weight loss on March 25, 2012 | 7 Comments »
So yesterday was weigh-in #2 on my Mat Lalonde-inspired approach for Lent. I mentioned in my day 19 post that I lost nearly 8 lbs in the first two weeks. Not surprisingly, this slowed in the second two weeks; I lost a bit over 5 lbs. On the plus side, that’s still a better average [...]
Quote of the day
Posted in Ancestral health, QOTD on March 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Emily Deans (of the fab Evolutionary Psychiatry blog) on what to believe: Forget the paleo myths. Forget the personalities. Are you eating (for the most part) real food (excepting autoimmune disease). Are you exercising? How is your sleep? What are you feeling? What are the pitfalls? What is your family doing? Fix those issues and [...]
Homeostasis: Of spring flowers and weight
Posted in Ancestral health, Obesity on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Courtesy of La Nina, it has been a ridiculously mild winter here in the nation’s capital. So much so that by the end of February, the cherry blossoms were starting to peek out and the daffodils (my fave) were in full bloom. And last week it was in the 80s. Yeesh! It doesn’t look like [...]
Robb Wolf on Kruse and divisiveness
Posted in Ancestral health on March 15, 2012 | 23 Comments »
Robb Wolf addressed a question about Jack Kruse and thermogenesis in his recent podcast and in his response, he spoke to what he called the “really nasty divisive kind of scene growing up within the paleosphere.” I have been uncomfortable about the tone of some of these discussions despite greatly respecting many of the folks [...]
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